Comprehension:
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Everything we associate with the rejuvenation of life is intertwined with the seasons. Think of holidays and harvests, festivals of tunes and tinsel, altered ocean currents heaving with young fish. Remember the skies suddenly agleam with vibrant visitor-birds or beaches hosting turtles born and birthing there. All beings on Earth are shaped by the seasons—which makes unnatural changes in these crucial cycles concerning. Consider how summer in western countries now stretches to half the year while winter has shrunk, withdrawing its draperies of snow. Spring has lengthened, bringing in more pollen and invasive species, while in the east, the monsoon is more erratic, spewing rains of wild velocity. Summers have grown unbelievably hot—and we all know that choking ‘smog season’, months of dense air pollution covering us like a filthy blanket.
Natural seasons come from Earth orbiting the sun—the closer we get, the warmer we feel, the farther we go, life gets colder. However, these changing climes—unending summers, chopped-up winters, howling typhoons—are courtesy of us. The Anthropocene is the era of human impacts reshaping Earth, with one main cause: the more we burn fossil fuels, the more greenhouse gases— carbon, sulfur, methane—are emitted. These block our planet’s natural processes of releasing heat into space, trapping it within. As the planet heats—we are now 1.5 degrees hotter than preindustrial times—it collapses.
Thus, melting Arctic ice has reached a record low alongside massive glacial retreat in Antarctica. As the oceans swell, water is absorbed by winds unleashing this as ‘unseasonal’ rain. This wonky water cycle also spurs droughts—dry months burst into wildfires, reducing Amazon forest and Hollywood studio equally to smoke and dust. In the relentless logic of the Anthropocene, nothing is wasted—hence, that smoke and dust return somewhere as a ‘season of smog’. Yet, there are solutions.
The paragraph discusses the issue of-
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Global Warming
The passage explains how burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases that stop heat from escaping into space, so that "the planet heats" (now "1.5 degrees hotter than preindustrial times"). It then describes the results: longer summers, melting Arctic ice, glacial retreat, unseasonal rain, droughts, wildfires and smog. All of this is the issue of global warming.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Unemployment — Incorrect. Not mentioned: the passage says nothing about jobs or work.
Option 2: Population — Incorrect. Wrong cause: the passage blames burning fossil fuels, not the number of people.
Option 4: Global Crisis of Food — Incorrect. Not mentioned: harvests are named only as one of the things linked with the seasons; no food shortage is described.